——­ Committee Reports, no. 278, 36th
congress, first session, being testimony before a
Select Committee of the Senate, appointed to inquire
into the Harper’s Ferry affair.

——­ WAR DEPARTMENT.

Aside from the Confederate Records, which are
not regular War Department files, papers have been
examined there for the Civil War period, although
not by any means exhaustively. Enough were examined,
however, to show reason for disparaging somewhat the
work of the editors of the Official Records.
Apparently, the editors, half of them northern sympathizers
and half of them southern, proceeded upon a principle
of selection that necessitated exchanging courtesies
of omission.

WAR OF THE REBELLION. Compilation of the official
records of the Union and Confederate armies (Washington),
129 serial volumes and an index volume.